On October 7, the President signed into law the “Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act (H.R. 6893)” which Congress passed on September 17, 2008. This legislation targets specific perceived deficiencies in the child welfare system. Major provisions of the bill include:
1. Helping Relatives Care For Foster Children
2. Extending Assistance to Foster Youth Up to the Age of 21
3. Expanding Training Funds – Expands coverage of federal funds for the training of child welfare workers to include private agencies approved by the state.
4. Improving Oversight of Health Care – Includes overseeing plans for the health care needs of foster children, accounting for the assessment and treatment of health conditions and ensuring the continuity of care, medical records, and prescription drugs.
5. Promoting Educational Stability – Requires plan for ensuring the educational stability of children in foster care and mandate assurance of school attendance.
6. Increasing Aid for Tribal Foster Care – Provides direct federal foster care and adoption funding to tribal governments for children in their care.
7. Encouraging Sibling Placement – Requires reasonable efforts to place siblings together when removed from their homes.
8. Extending and Improving Adoption Incentives by doubling the cash bonuses to States for adopting out children.
While we were all focused on the election this bill was signed and touchy-feely politicians everywhere felt a little better about themselves for throwing several billion dollars more into the corrupt welfare system under the veil of saving foster kids.
See anything missing from this bill? Its quite obvious. Not one penny to help families stay together.This Act, along with many others before it encourages the creation of foster kids by providing more cash incentives for the states to rip families apart and adopt out their kids.
Walter Mondale in 1974 promoted the Child Abuse and Prevention Act which began feeding massive amounts of federal funding to states to set up programs to combat child abuse and neglect. From that came “Child Protective Services”, as we know it today. After the bill passed, Mondale himself expressed concerns that it could be misused. He worried that it could lead states to create a “business” in dealing with children.
In 1997 President Clinton passed the “Adoption and Safe Families Act.” The public relations campaign promoted it as a way to help abused and neglected children who languished in foster care for years, often being shuffled among dozens of foster homes, never having a real home and family.
It all sounded so heartwarming. We love to buy stereotypes no questions asked. In the stereotype that we’ve been sold about kids in foster care, we picture a forlorn, hollow-eyed child, thin and pale, looking up at us beseechingly through a dirt streaked face.
We think of orphans and children abandoned by evil child abusing parents. We imagine the finally adopted kids eyes growing as big as saucers as his new family shows him his very own room full of toys. And we just feel so gosh darn good about ourselves.
Now reality sets in…. Very few children who are being used to supply the adoption market are hollow-eyed kids from despicable parents. Very few are crack babies from the projects. Oh… you thought those were the children they were saving? Think again.
The vast majority of these children come from the suburbs of our cities. Why? When marketing a product you need a product people want to buy, sadly in the adoption business that would be nice kids with reasonably good genetics who clean up good.
Everybody makes money. If anyone really believes that these people are doing this out of the goodness of their hearts, then I’vegot some bad news for you. Tens of thousands of state employees, lawyers, court personnel, court investigators, evaluators and guardians, judges, and DSS – CPS contracted vendors such as counselors, therapists, psychologists, residential facilities, foster parents, adoptive parents, Big Brothers/Big Sisters, YMCA, etc. Make millions of dollars of this child kidnapping market.
The State agencies have become completely dependant on the millions they receive for taking kids and adopting them out. The adoptive parents receive several hundred dollars a month more than natural parents on welfare to care for their kids.
To produce these orphans and foster kids to receive these billions of dollars the States lower their definition of “abuse” and take children from their parents for almost any reason. The average family preyed upon by CPS is white, low income, working parents with an income level low enough that they will not be able to afford thousands of dollars in attorneys fees to fight for their children.
Families are destroyed for profit. This latest bill George Bush signed doubles the federal money given to CPS\DHS on a per child removed basis. The money encourages the Welfare Departments across the land to find kids that would be easily adopted out, move immediately to terminate their parental rights of the parents and adopt them out as quickly as possible.
Billions more to destroy families and nothing to rebuild them. Ignorance was bliss, now your informed.
Note to good foster parents: I know there are thousands of you out there. Please don’t take offense to these facts I am posting. You are truly much needed part of society in the cases of real abuse and I commend you for it.
Many that have been victimized by CPS are uniting on this Conservative Network.
Ken Maddox of OneAngryMan.com co-founder of SplitnTwo.com
VIDEO of a CPS baby snatching
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I am putting together a Petition to go before our new president, his wife and Mn governor and others. I do a sm. paper that goes out to about 500+ people. I have spoke with families that have been sotrmed by cps, children removed from their homes. They find it is very costly toget the back. Just not enough money to fight. I would like to get as many people as I can to seign the petition and send it into their State offices and to Washington, DC andhave them arrive about the same time if at all possible and with a very loug thud! if you know what I mean. I am 69 andin 2005 began researching cps, got involved with a neighbor that had been going through their process for 13 yrs. 2009 her last child was taken away, my grandson, I recently learned is in a home thathe should not be in, This petition will have a place for apicture of the child taken. It makes it more personal andnot just a peice ofpaper.
Anyone interested in signing the Petition sendme a large envelope, addressed and stamped and I will be glad to send them one.
Pat Ellingson
P.O. Box 163
Deer Creek, MN 56527